Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1897 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1897.

11.11 1.2 .SM.4) ll.Wl.H.Si Total resources -Liabilities. Capital stock paid in Undivided proiits. less expenses.. Individual ii-?it 5l", 1ST. K. . ). 4, 70.27 rJd.Mi 1 1-7.2 Interest rertiheates Tall certificate" Due lanks and bankers.. Cash creditors" checks.... Certified checks To t a I 1 la bi 1 i t i es 1 .1 ,WW7 President Sc'.w ffer. of the Allemanla. said at non that the bank had bH-n suffering from the panic, the failure being due to the combined withholding and withdrawing of deioslts. There had tor xotnc time iiecn a gradual drain on the bank and It seemed to Rain ad led force as soon as the Jerm&nia failure was announced. A crowd of depositors 50on gathered, demanding their money, and at 11 o'clock it was decide! to close at once. State Bank Kxaminer Kenyon was called In and took possession of the bank. A few mlnut" before - o'clock the West FIc'e Hank, organized in lvs with a capital of Jho'iu. closed its doors. The president. C. 1. Staples. ioM a reporter that the bank cleared through the Allemanla and had clearings returned to-day because of the closing of that bank. This was but one of the cause.) that led to the closing of the West Side Bank, which had suffered considerably from the general condition of affairs. Tb official statement of the bank made to the state examiner on Dec. 17 is as follows: "Total assets. 1217.021.17. Of this $1.7t.fi was In loans anu diseounts and 12V in real estate. The total deposits were 11 1.!..'!;. The furniture and fixtures represented U." and bills rediscounted, 11. .VI The hank may reopen. Public funds were on depjdt in the three banks. The Jtat. had tlv.r4 in the Iermania. t:'-,'2 in toe Allemanla and l?.SA in the West Side. The county treasurer had deposited t.Kttp in th fJermania. I1S.21. in the Allemani;i and $7.."4S in the West Side Hank. City Treasurer Horst had on deposit city funds in the (lermanla. iW.V.C; In the Allemanla. $r,l.. and in the West Side Hank. $21X4. Owing to the excitement caused by the closing of the Germanl.i and Allemanla. many depositors started after their money In one or two of the other banks, the Minnesota Savins Hank being the center of excitement. The cashier of the bank. William Hickel. jr.. is a son of the lirst vice president of the Allemanla. and this fact seemed to turn the minds of the propie that v.-ay. The bank remained open as usual for business, but took advantage of the rule requiring sixty days' notice before allowing withdtawals of deposits. loun llorfKK? Company. TOPL'KA. Kr.n., Jan. 4.-In the Federal Court to-day Judge Foster appointed Wm. F. Fuller, of Hartford. Conn., receiver of the Iowa Mortgage Company in proceedings In which Harry C. .Ryan and Julius Lischer. of Davenport. Ia.. were complainants. The Iowa Mortgage Company was organized under the laws of Connecticut. Its ottices are iocaUd at Hartford. Conn., and Davenport. Ia. Its capital stock is only IKV.WO. but it has transacted an immense volume of business in the West, and especially In Iowa and Kansas. It negotiated loans an 1 securities and guaranteed their payments, and in that way became heavily involved. The complainants represent themselvea and others In the sidt. Fuller will lw appointed receiver of the property of the company In every State In which It did business or owned property. Close ff Devil lake BnnL. DEVILS LAKE. N. D.. Jan. 4. The Merchants National Hank closed Its doors today pending action of the controller of the currency. President Pcrcival is in the Kast and the cashier would make no s-tatement. The bank was organized in 17. with $."WX eapital. Two or three yejrs later Ashley Mean lought Ihe controlling Interest and Increased th capital to $10O.". In K2. when Meers's string of banks and other concerns went down, the affairs were put in the hands oi' John A. Pcrcival. the stock bing reduced to V.mo, but the recent hard times were too much for it. The last statement showed Jl7.00 deposits. A Prophet of Kvll Criticised. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Jan. 1. The friends of Wm. J. Bryan are distressed over the flippant way with which he treats and speaks of recent business misfortunes. They are praying that he may see the advisability of keeping still once in a while. One of his Idolatrous admirers said to-day: "Mr. Hryan ought to understand that he Is not expected to get up and make a bow every time a bank collapses." An I own. Dnnk Assign. MASON CITY. Ia.. Jan. 4. The First City Hank, of Nora Springs, has failed. An assignment was made to Byron (.Jammidge. Other Dudiiim Trouble. SPRINTS FIELD. 111.. Jan. 4. Judge Allen, in the United States Circuu Court, to-day rendered a decree of foreclosure in favor of William Howard and David Block, of St. Louts, against the. Venice Grain Elevator Companv. of Venice. Madison countv. Illinois, in the sum of $2.0oo. The Venice elevator is a part of the St. Louis United Elevator Company's system. NEW YORK. Jan. 4. Justice Truax. of the Supreme Court, has appointed S. J. O'Sullivan receiver of the assets and property of Oeorge Mather's Sons, the wellknown manufacturer:; of printing inks, in proceedings brought by the Third National Hank of SprlngUeld. a creditor. The company assigned on Dec. II las. to Frank A. Chapm an. Ql'INCY. III.. Jan. 4. The wholesale and retail crockery store of H. Lldder & Co. was closed by the sheriff to-day on judgments aggregating about ?s.C. The total ersets are SUM) and liabilities f30.M. Business will bo resumed soon. CINCINNATI. Jan. 4. T. C. Bayless. commission merchant at No. 110 East Front street, has assigned to C W. Scott. Assets. $21.HJ: liabilities. 7,i!UO. CHICAGO. Jan. 1. L. W. Abt &. Co., wholesale jewelers, failed to-day. Till: .ATIOVL HAMvS. Their Condition tin Miovn ly Reports to Controller EeUeU. WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.-A student of finance will llnd frcrae good figures In the statements of national bank which are now coming into the controller of the currency. The national-bank act requires this officer to call, without previous warning, at least live times each year for statements of the condition of the 3.7iX banks. In making these calls a date already past Is nxed on which the bank's cond.tlon mu-t be reported in order to prevent the bankers from doctoring their looks. On Dec. 20 Controller Eckels called for reports dated I H e. 17. He expected them to have an exceptional Interest, localise they would indicate the condition of banks six weeks after the defeat of the silver party. In July and Octoler, when the last reiorts had been made, the silver question was at white heat. Orators were shouting Bryan and repudiation in every State of the Union. The banks were not expected to In? prosperous. But in December all this hail passed away and the people had settled down to business, with four years of good government lfore them. The report now comins in. therefore, ought to show, the' first signs of better times, and they do. Though each individual bank is required to speak for Itself, the controller does not publish each report. If there are twenty national banks in a city, the twenty reports are combined into one, showing tne aggregate condition of all the b.iiiks as one institution. These statements are given to the public and tell the story without revelling the secrets. The cities covered are New York. Brooklyn. Philadelphia. Pittsburg. Baltimore. New Orleans. Milwaukee. Cincinnati and Detroit. Though the statements go much Into details, the essential items are "loans and discounts." "lawful money on hand' and "individual deposits." By these the pulse of a bank Is felt. There are forty-nine national banks in New York city. On Dec. 17 they hAld a few thousand dollars less than $.'m',ij In deposits, thou fib their deposits had been less than $27r,oMoa in October and about J:..;.in July. This change is favorable. The lawful money pi the.xe banks Dec. 17 was more than ll.Ti.oofl.uio. in oetoler It was uut SPrt.OOa.mo and In July $t21.UUM. Thi.s change Is also favorable. In December the ame banks had cut nearly J.'l !)..- Vrf) In loans and discounts, though their lottn in October had been le.ss than j.'U.U'.Omj and in July a tout $X'ir..QoUM. There was a net Increase In deposits between October Hid Deeemher of tr.,t)M,). n lawful money i-rT.oon.t,) and In loans J2 Ths fig ure certainly have n remarkable and encouraging Hgnlreance. Another jol:u of much importance pt the New York bank itit-ment !s thi; In October its forty-nine tank- had a reherve of only about 2 per cent.. I per cent, more than the law dexr.ind. In July they had a reserve of : per cent. Now their reserve is over 32 per cent. Th Philadelphia statement, next in tmvsriancc, perhaps, shows dc-pujita of fcv -

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ooanon now. against S.onn.o") in October and lvs.Oini (tu in July. There are forty-one. ban Km there. Their loans have decreased a trlMe. being $v.ioiun now. against $7.M.0oi in OctoUr and $S.'0.o,i in July. But their lawful money has increased an even million dollars since October, showing the fortyonc institutions to be that much stronger and better able to protect their deiosltors. Their reserve is now over -I"., i r cent., where it was 3) per cent, in October and July. Pittsburg Is the next city In Importance that has reported. There re thirty banks there and the people must have faith in them, for they held in December nearly tr.0eO.nuo of the people's money. The Pittsburg banks, all through the-financial flurry, have shown a soundness that is amazing. Examine their reports for years back and you will find no evidence of trouble. No one knowing this will be surprised to see th Pittsburg statement of December alout the same in all the items as the Pittsburg statements of October and July. The twenty-two banks of Baltimore have many of the same characteristics. In fact, there is much in common between Pittsburg and. Baltimore. Both are rich, solid, substantial, conservative and honest. They have grown slowly and safely. The Baltimore bank statement doesn't fluctuate. That Is why the July. October and December statements show loans about the same J.H..?J0,i)U), almost to a dollar and deposits about the same. $2.1. Ouo. (;. The lawful money on hand, however. Increased $1,.V)9.M between October and December. That came from one cause viz., the restoration of confidence, which took place on Nov. lSf',. There are thirteen national banks in Cincinnati an unlucky number. But they are unusually sound and show up at every call with an average rest rve of from 30 to 3T, jer cent., though the law requires only 2r. In December their reserve was nearly 3S per cent., though it had 1 in October and H2 in July. This is good evidence of soundness and ought to give depositors faith and good rest. The deposits in the Cincinnati banks Increased JI.mo.ikji) between OctoUr and December, and are now about $U. MUX). The lawful money Increased from alout $li:iotfK)0 to $1.."ihi.o)) lietwecn July and December. The loans went alnnit as far t heother way. Brooklyn lias but live national banks. Their deposits have increased since July almost $2.'M floo. one-half of w hich was added after Oetol r. The deposits now amount to $17.n.fH). Their loans increased $1.Mji. in round numbers, between October and December; their lawful money reserve about $n.tuo. New Orleans has seven national banks. In some way faith In the country grew so much around New Orleans In the month of November that their dejosits increased l'2JJ"h This Is a remarkable sum when it is realized that the deposits amount to only $14..Vkj.0) at the high-water mark. In the same period the loans increased almost JI.OW.Omj. showing that some one borrowed money to put into trade. The lawful reserve increased In some way the election seemed to affect business even In the South. anl the banks were the lirst to feel it and admit it. ' The six national banks in Detroit seem to have remained In a tout the same condition since last July. Their deposits have hung around JltUrfie.ctpo and their loans around IH.CW.OOO. The lawful money reserve increased $.TO(.0OO after the election. There Is some encouragement in that. The six hanks managed to raise their average reserve from 27.31 per cent, in October to 3Srt per cent, in December, which reveals the existence of new energy and strength. OBITUARY. Sir Henry St. John Hnlford, Bart, C. II., n Noted Rifleman. LONDON, Jan. 1. Sir Henry Halford. who as ciptaln of the English rifle team which visited America a, score of years ago. died to-day. Sir Henry St. John Halford. Bart., C. H.. was sixty-nine years old. He entertained the American party that visited England in ivrr. and when he reached New York. Aug. 2". 177, with a visiting British rifle team he was heartily welcomed. The contests were for the American Centennial trophy and championship of the world, and the British team was captained by Sir Henry. It resulted in a victory for America by a total score of 3.3.11 to 3.212. A return match was shot on July 2T. lvsa, at Wimbledon. England. Sir Henry Halford's team won by a score of 1.647 to 1W. In September. 1SS2. Sir Halford again visited America with a rifle team to compete in the International military rifle match at Creedmore. The result of ihe first day's shooting was a victory for his team by 170 points. Mtclmel J. McGrnth. NEW YORK. Jan. 4. Michael J. McGrath, member of the Wall-street bureau of the Associated Press, died to-day at his home in Brooklyn of Bright's disease, aged forty-eight years. For twenty-live years he has been in the service of the Associated Press. He w.s a man of high character and universally respected. Mr. McGrath was one of the oldest newspaper workers in Wall street. At the time of his death he was a member of the Brooklyn Board of Assessors. Other Dcntlm. LONDON. Jan. 4. Dr. Jameson, brother of the Transvaal raider, died on Jan. 1 in this city. K ASK ASK I A.

A Kentneky Writer Correct t'ertnln Historical Error. J. Stoddard Johnson, in Louisville CourierJournal. In your paper of to-day is an interesting article from the New York Mail and Express on Kaskaskia. III., which only lacks the element of truth to make it a valuable historical contribution. There Is so much of this history being written now for the magazines and press that before this has time to crystallize I beg space to correct some of Its most glaring misstatements. In the first place, the writer falls into a common eror. There were two towns in Illinois na.ned Kskaskla. The first was on the Illtnoi- river, and was founded by Marquette s a mission in 1674. and was un important station in very early times. The other, also founded by the French Jesuits, near the beginning of the eighteenth century, v.-a 3 on a river of the same name, which emptied In the Mississippi about seventy-five miles below St. Louis. It was six miles from its mouth, and was. for a considerable time, the principal town in that whole region. The statement that it was situated on an Island and that In !'). or at any other time, it had a imputation of 7.KK) is ridiculous. Fortunately, the evidence is clear and incontrovertible. In-176) Captain Harry Gordon, chief engineer In the Western department of North America, who was sent from Ft. Pitt, Pittsburg, down the Ohio river to Illinois, left a journal of his observations, which Is very explicit as to Kaskaskia and that region of the country. It will b? found in the topographical description of Thomas Pownall. M. P., printed and published according to act of Parliament. London. 1776. He arrived at the Kaskaskia river, then called Kuskuskis. and visited the village, which was on the low ground on the northwest side of the river. He describes it as consisting of "eighty houscs. well built, mostly of stone, with gardens and large lots. The inhabitants generally live well and have large stocks of cattle." Its population then was four or five hundred. St. Louis, which had been founded two years before, and was ther; known as Pain Court (short of bread), had fifty families, and went steadily ahead of Kaskaskia. But this Is not the only witness to refute this trifler with history. In 1777 Captain Thomas Hutchins. known as the geographer of Nocth America, published in London, also by act of Parliament, hi:; "Topographical description of Virginia. Pennsylvania. Maryland and North Carolina." in which he descriles the country even more minutely th::n Gordon, having been with him in 1776. and paid a second visit just before the breaking oat of the revolutionary war. In his volume he gives u topographical man of the Mississippi and adjacent country from Kaskaskia to St. I.ouis. in which are laid dov.-i j i the roads, settlements and Ullages. There was then no town or settlement on any island in the Mississippi, and Kaskaskia was situated, as stated, six miles from tt;. Mississippi on the northwest side f the river of the same name, on bad ground, with an old fort on the hinh around near the east bank of the river. The new ?'ort taken by General George' lingers Clark July 4. 177S. was on the town side of th liver. According to his account. Kaskaskia contained "rive hundred white innaoitants s.i.d between four hundred and Iw hundred mgroes. The former have urg" stocks of black cattle, swine, etc." It was then at the helKht of its prosperity, as St. !ouis was already drawing to Itself the trade of that section and dwarnng the older towns. Hutchins describes St. Louis as Having "eight hundred inhabitants, principally French. Some of them have a liberal edueatlon. are polite and hospitable. They have about 1.VJ negroes and larje t!ocks of black cattle." The article is full of errors, but I have only deemed it necessary to pclnt out the meat glaring. (niindinn Elretlon Declared Void. NEW YORK. Jan. 4. A Montreal dispatch to the Evening Post says: "The ejection In Champlain county. In which clerical Intimidation was c harged, has been declared void. Bishop Lidrche and the clergy who were summoned to appear refused to give testimony, and the pitting member. Dr. Marcottevio avoid their committal for contempt of court, admitted corrupt practices by agents, thus making the election Void.

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EXPLOSION DAMAGES II I G PI MPI.XU STATION AT FHANKTON. Mm. W. M. Stnhl. of Hartford City, Will to to Aliinkn Shortly n n W. C. T. I. Organizer. Frcial to the Indianapolis Journal. FHANKTON. Ind., Jan. 4.-Saturday night at 11 o'clock a gas explosion at the pumping station of the Manufacturers' Natural Gas Company, of Indianapolis, badly wrecked the main building and darnaged the boiler room slightly. D. C. Minor, the night engineer, hail Just stopped the engine when the explosion occurred. He was burned about the face and arms, and his right eye is destroyed. The roof of the main structure was blown off and the windows and window casings were blown out. The machinery is not damaged. Men were put to work at once to repair the wreck. The injuries of Engineer Minor are not necessarily fatal. The cause of the explosion was the over-heating of pipes. The large tank through which the coils of pipe run. has been leaking and the water was shut off until the tank could be repaired. There being no water to keep th pipes cool, the explosion resulted. The pumps an not be started before Thursday, as it is necessary to get some special steam fittings forged and dressed before repairs can be made. INDIANA OIHTl AllY. Columhu ThotiiuM Fell Dead in the AnderMOii Station. Sjeel;d to the ImJiaiiaiKjlia Journal. ANDERSON. Ind.. Jan. 4. Columbus Thomas, aged fifty, who resided with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Lcesman, in this city, fell dead to-day at the Big Four station whilo waiting for the arrival of his daughter, who had been visiting relative In Lebanon. Mr. Thomas was standing on the platform in front of the ticket olflce and pitched forward on his face, and was dead when a cabman reached him. The train arrived and Mrs. Leesman, after waiting for her father a few minutes without seeing him. went to tier home and did not learn cf his death till late this afternoon, when the body was identified by her husband as that of his wife's father. Mr. Thomas did not have anything on his person that could identify him and the remains were removed by the coroner. Michael A. Yontsey. Itf-clal to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Jan. 4. Michael A. Yontsey, a well-known resident of this city, died thi.s morning of general infirmity, aged seventy-seven. Mr. Yontsey was born in Campbell county, Kentucky, anl married Miss Mary A. Taylcr, of Kenton county. Kentucky, and came to Indiana in iV. He was married a second time to Miss Mabel Scott, of Jackson county. By his first marriage eight children were born, three of whom survive Mrs. Margaret Williams, of Columbus. Airs. Kate Blythe and Miss Flora Yontsey, of this city. Mr. Yontsey has been confined to his bed since August last. Mr, laanc 1. AYoodard. -"pedal to the Ir.dianaiiolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 4. Mrs. Isaac P. Woodard died suddenly this morning of heart disease, aged sixty-seven. A husband and five children survive her Mrs. Walter Henderson and Oliver C. Woodard. of this city: Mrs. Mary Robinson and Mrs. Mary E. Cox, of Randolph county, and Mrs. Ed Button, of Logansport. Richard Cliri'tlnn. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Ind.. Jan,-4 -Richard Christian, sr.. aged seventy-one. died at- his home in the suburb of Lakeside, last night. He was one of the oldest and most prominent residents of Kosciusko county. Annual Meeting: of Oil Men. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TOLEDO, O., Jan. 4. The annual meeting of the Western Oil Men's Association was held at the headquarters In this city, and the attendance from over the olt districts was large. Many from the Indiana field were expected to be In attendance, but they failed to appear. During the session a motion was brought up regarding the tax on oil wells in the Indiana Held. It Is claimed that the tax is not properly listed and the wish of the producers of that State is that the oil association make an attempt to have the tax put on a proper basis. This the association would do if there were members enough in the association from Indiana to warrant that step. The Indiana producers have been slow m combining. Mr. S. M. Jones was re-elected president and George C. Dunham vice president for the ensuing year. H. 11. Klauser was re-elected treasurer, and the new board of directors is: Judge G. Harmon. W. B. Nolan. John McKisson. H. H. Stow. Ge-orge C. Dunham and Thomas P. Delany. Youiik Smith Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Jan. 4. The trla of Claude Smith, charged with the murder of George Freeh, was commenced this morning before Judge O'Rourke. The court room was packed, but there was no demonstration of ill-feeling towards the prisoner. The evidence against Smith is all circumstantial, and. as there are more than one hundred witnesses, a verdict cannot be reached until next week. There was a scene in the court room this afternoon when W. G. Colerick, attorney for defense, was examining John Koch, one of the State's best witnesses. He asked Koch if the officers did not at one time suspect the witness of the crime, and in his manner of questioning indicated that the defense would attempt to shift the crime upon Koch. Honored by the V. C. T. I". Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Jan. 4. Mrs. W. M. Stahl. of this city, well known throughout this part of the State in W. C. T. U. circles, has been apiointed W. C. T. U. organizer for the Territory of Alaska. She has accepted the appointment and will leave in the early spring. She will make her headquarters either at Sitka, the capital, or Juneau, where her son. Eugene Stahl. Is located as publisher of the Alaskan News. Mrs. Stahl has been an earnest worker in W. C. T. U. ranks for many years. An Indiana Hoy In Honduras. Slecial to the Inlianaiolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Jan. 4. John D. Bell, of this city, has received a letter from his son. Fred Bell, who tms been developing gold mines in Honduras for the past twelve years. Mr. Bell is located miles from Truxillo. the seaport on the Caribbean sea. and has to send the product of his mines to that place by muleback. Without I'npuV Cnnxrnt. Speeial to the lndianaoll3 Journal. COLUMBUS. Ind., Jan. 4. Thomas Fob lowell, of this city, has been paying his addresses to Miss Ernestina Walfaln for some time, but against the will of the young woman's parents. Yesterday the couple drove over to Nashville and were quietly married at the Hampton homestead. Mrs. Followell has considerable property. Mix UcC'ltire'M Sudden Death. Scl;d io the Indiannpolls Journal. VINCENNES. Ir.d.. Jan. 4. Miss Effle McClure. daughter of ex-County Treasurer W. T. McClure. fell dead from heart disease to-day. She complalneu of u terrible pain in her heart thla morning and died in less than thirty minutes. She was home on a vacation from Lincoln, Jti., University. Flint Time for 3Iadion JiiMtiee. SHHtal to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON. Ind., Jan. 4. Charles Leap was sentenced by Judge Freialey to two years In the penitentiary to-day. Leap stole goods In Kentucky yesterday, brought them to Madison and was arrested and indicted by the grand jury to-day. COLORADO'S CI BAN Alt 91V, The Proposed Expedition Experience InulorlouM Collapse. Denver Times. With the old year the glory of the Denver army of Cuba Libre departed. J. McAndrew is stlli colonel commanding, but all he now r-ommands Is the mascot of the once grand iiriny. The snowstorm engendered a spirit jt mutiny In ttie ranks and the ardor for bloodshed and war departed from the fouIs if the men who were to beard Weyler in front of Castle El Moro. The flag of the Cuban republic was drawn down from its

height at River Front Park and the following communication was sent to J. McAndrew. colonel commanding: ; "We. th officers, at the request of the members of the Rocky mountain volunteers, after due consideration, have, by unanimous voice, decided that your plan of marching overland to the coast at this season of the year is a physical impossibility, lacking the necessary supplies sufliclent to move the command, and that the massing of men in any part of the United States, while so many men are idle, is only bringing on a conflict with the federal authorities, which we refuse to do. Charles F. Grell. lieutenant colonel: H. II. lloeticr. major: F. W. Dolbee. captain: D. E. S. Branstetter. first lieutenant: S. C. S. Carnlari, quartermaster; Edward Hill, second lieutenant: Joseph Townsend. corioraI." "Oh. ho. ye caitiffs." replied J. .McAndrew, colonel commanding; "disband and be d d to ye. Were it not for the hounds of what is called law I would order each one of you to be shot. You have all the spirits of dogs of peace, not dogs of war."

POPE LEO INDISPOSED HIS HOLINESS FAT I G I" ED AFTER THE HOLIDAY RECEPTIONS. Hcfttimption of the Trinl of Lndy Scott on the Charge of Libeling; Enrl II n swell LnndKlide. LONDON. Jan. 4. A dispatch from Rome to the Chronicle says that the Pope Is slightly indisposed, and has suspended his audiences. The Rome correspondent of the Standard says there is nothing alarming In Pope Leo's indisposition, and that he is merely taking a rest after the fatigues of the Christmas and New Year's receptions. Trial of Lady Scott Resumed. LONDON, Jan. 4. The trial of Lady Sclina Scott, charged by her son-in-law. Earl Russell, with libel, in connection with John Cockerton, an engineer, and William Atlott, a valet, was resumed this morning. Lady Scott looked but little the worse for her recent illness. Dr. Scott, the physician of Holloway Jail, formally testified to the death from consumption of Frederick Kast, a groom, who was also one of the defendants. The physician said that the whole time Kast was in his charge the prisoner was not lit to be cross-examined as a witness. William Harding, a cabin boy on board Earl Russell's yacht in ISyJ. denied that Earl Russell hau ever attempted improper conduct with him. W. R. Parker, who was the pilot of Earl Russell's yacht in 186-87. said he never heard of any improper conduct on the part of the Earl en board the yacht. Replying to a question, Parker said that Aylott asked him, in 18, whether he knew Kast, and witness replied that he did not. Thereupon Aylott said: "You are rather silly. There is plenty of money, and you can get as much as j-ou like." The rest of Parker's testimony tended to show thf t Aylott and Cockerton tried to Inveigle him Into conspiring against Earl Russell. Other members of the crew who weie called as witnesses denied-the stories of indecency on board the yacht. The trial was then adjourned for the day. " The Fit in I tie In Indln. LONDON, Jan. .". A Times dispatch from Calcutta says: Returns of the Seazorne Trade for November plainly show the effects of the famine. The export of wheat has practically ceased, and the export of rye has decllned. Imports generally have declined ' per cent, and exports have declined 8 ier cent. The government heads decline to accede to the proposal of the Bengal authorities that the government should advance money at H per cent, interest for importing and distributing grain. The government considers that It will best serve all interests by rigorously abstaining from any interference with private trade. To Prevent Duels. LONDON. Jan. ."..A Berlin dispatch to the Times says that a new cabinet order has been issued with reference to eluding. "Various versions of the order arc current," says the dispatch, "but It appears J6 be intended to 'extend the jurisdiction of the military courts with a view to preventing duels. It will also empower the courts to deal with quarrels between officers and civilians and Is doubtless the outcome of the commission which Chancellor Von Hohenlohe recently promised to appoint to consider the subject." A g:oiii ZuIun PunlMhed. LONDON. Jan. i. Advices received from Blantyrc, the mission town of British South Africa, announce that the British force sent last month against the Agoni Zulus under Chief Chikusi. who had invaded southwest Nyussaland and burned a Hritish mission station, besides massacring the inhabitants of a numler of villages, has routeel the Agonis with heavy loss after some sharp ttghting. Chief Chikusi was captured and hanged. Five men of the British force were wounded. ReHtilt of French Elections. PARIS. Jan. 4. The offlclrl returns of the results .of the elections held yesterday to replace one-third of the n: mbers of the Senate, whose terms are expiring, showthat sixty-nine Republicans, thirteen Radicals, three Socialist-Radicals and twelve Reactionists have been elected. Most of the newspapers agre in saying that the result will not modify the policy of the Senate. Another Battle In the Philippine!. MADRID, Jan. I. Official dispatches from Manilla chronicle a battle on the Pasigg river, where the Philippine rebels were trying to obstruct navigation. The Spanish loss was ten men killed and twenty wounded, while the. insurgents had thirty-two killed and many wounded. Thirteen conspirators were shot at Manilla to-day. . Dlnnsttroun Landslide. LONDON, Jan. 5. A Rome dispatch to the Standard reports that an immense landslide has occurred at St. Anna Relago, in the province of Modena, affecting seven square kilometres. As a result hundreds are left homeless. 12 buildings having collapsed, so that the occupants are ruined. AY hut Docs Thin Meun? BERLIN. Jan. 4. According to the Tageblatt some of the European powers. Russia and France being mentioned, have come to an understanding to make representations to Washington in order to prevent further trouble between the United Staters and Spain. Cable Neiten. The Comte d'Mas Latrie is dead at Paris. A new ocean-going yacht is to be built for Queen Victoria in place of the Victoria and Albert, the present royal yacht. The London Chronicle announces that the Rev. George F. Pentecost has resigned the pastorate of the Marylebone Church to accept a call to America. The London Standard's Vienna correspondent c.tnies that the brother of the Prince of Chimay-Caraman. who is councilor of the Belgian delegation in Vienna, has resigned on account of the scandal in his brother's family over the elopement of th Princess with a Hungarian gypsy. The councilor, it is said, has merely received an extended leave of absence. I'ennlonM for Veteran. Certificates have been issued to the following-named Intllanlans: Original-Michael Klein, Madison. . Increase (special. 1 ec. 21 Webb W. Casto. Macksville: Robert H. Walter. DaleRobert Adams. National Military Home; Andrew J. Tanner, Indianapolis. Reissue and Increase Joseph Hartman, Indianapolis. Original Widows, etc. Minors of George W. Black. Marlon: Susan F. Penner. Augusta; Margaret E. Allen. Fargo; Irene Teeters. Indianapolis. Supplemental, Emily Earl. Noblesville. Mexican War Widow Mary A. Stansbury., Campbellsburg. Hlectrle C"nr In CoIIImIoii. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 4.-In Kansas City, Kan., vo-day two elevated electric cars collided, e'ach being badly wrecked. Five passengers were badly shaken up and more or less seriously Injured, but net fatally hurt. Dr. Adoiph D. Crlch. the most seriously Injured, was bruised on the head and rendered unconscious. Libel Suit to Be Retried. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 4 .The $i5.(0j verdict which ex-Mayor William B. Smith, of this city, obtained in the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia against the Times for alleged libel, was reversed to-day by the Supreme Court. The opinion was unanimous. A new trial is granted.

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IT'LL FORCE OF THE WESTERN STORM WILL NOT HE FELT HERE. Railway Trnllle Interrupted by Snowdrift in Severn! State The Miftlssippi RIkIiik. CHICAGO. Jan. 4. The storm which has been raging for the last forty-eight hours in the Northwest has not Increased in severity, save, perhaps, in Iowa, and the signal serice in this city, which reads affairs generally in the northern Mississippi valley, is on record as declaring that within a short time the storm will "probably abate." The wind has been high throughout the storm, and in 'some instances has shown remarkable pertinacity in clinging to the high figures, it having for thirty-six hours kept up a tifty-two-mile-per-hour gait at Huron, S. D. The falling temperature is general In the lake region and upper Mississippi valley, but there has been no heavy fall of snow east of Iowa. In Iowa the fall of sleet and snow has been very heavy, and the reports to-night indicate lower temperature and more snow. In western Kansas there las been much trouble because of the snow packing across tne tracKS, ana trains nave oeen neiei ai eating stations until the tracks can Ikj cleared. The storm is practically over in this locality and the sky is clearing. Nebraska has had about the same exier!ence and Is under drifts anywhere from two to ten feet high. Advices from St. Paul, covering Minnesota and the Dakotas, say that trnln service is considerably crippled. In a number of towns business was about suspended today. Devil's Iike, in North Dakota, reported no trains for thirty-six hours, and Grand Forks makes a similar report, adding that the schools are closeel and wires down to the west of there. In South Dakota there was more snow, but the storm was little more severe than in the North State. Huron reports elrlfts fifteen feet high and the storm still raging. Vermillion reports that all business has been suspended. Mitchell says no trains since the storm began Sunday morning and streets deserted. Brookings classes it as the worst blizzard known for years, and all business suspended. Yankton reports many trains abandoned entirely on account of the storm. Watertown fears that the stock will suffer. Throughout western and northern Minnesota the storm has been severe. Glyndon reports trains snowed up in drifts ten feet deep. Detroit says the railroads cannot do much towards opening up thelrVracks before to-morrow. Moorhead discovers some sign of abatement in the storm, which is the worst that has visited that place, cold winds blowing fifty miles an hour and the snow drifting ten or more feet. Barnesville, In the same part of the State, reports all business suspended, business men not even trying to open their doors and the streetsabandoned to the heavy, drifting snow. Others make similar reports. LcKislatorn Snowhonnd. YANKTON, Jan. 4. The blizzard which legaii Saturday night rages with unabated fury to-night. Only one railroad is reported to have moved a train in South Dakota, and this was the local on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul between Yankton and Sioux City. All other trains were abandoned last night. The storm Is the worst that has ever been known for drifting snow, but Is not so blinding or cold as the great storm of 1SS8. when more than one hundred people were frozen to death. No casualties ef this nature have yet been reported, although a great deal of stock is known to have perished. The State Legislature, which was to convene at P'ierre tomorrow, and the banquet to Governor Leo which was to follow, will of necessity be postponed, as about 80 of the 126 members are snowbound, and some-of them will not reach the capital for several days. Illoeknde Only Partial. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 4. Up to midnight there has leen little abatement in the fury of the storm that has ragetl in this section for sixty hours. The snow has ceased falling, but the wind still blows a gale and the temperature is very low. Reports from the State indicate only a partial blockade. Trains on the Ur.ion Pacific, Burlington, Elkhorn and Rock Island roads west are moving slowly, but within one er two hours of schedule, time. On the north and south roaels there is much trouble. The Omaha line is completely tied up. The drifts in the northern part of the State being such that the road could not be opened while the storm raged. Branch lines suffereel greatly, nearly all being blocked. So far there has been no Joss of life reported. In this city business ha- only lecn slightly interrupted. Dnniflfte nt nnd Near Qulncy. QUINCY. III.. Jan. 4.-Later reforts increase the storm damage in this section. On the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern and Quincy. Omaha & Kansas City roads were bad washouts which interfered with travel. The rainfall was five inches In forty-two hours, and the Mississippi rose eight feet since Friday nighi. The walls of St. John's Catholic Church, now being built at a cost of $30,000, were washed out on two sides and the edifice will have to be rebuilt. Many cellars are flooded and the stocks of lumber yards along the river bank were washed into the stream. Sewers and pavements are washed out In many places. Considerable live steck has been drowned. Over In Missouri the ice has broken down many fruit trees and damaged telephone and telegraph lines. The loss will reach thousands of dollars. Big: Rise in the MlKsinnippi. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 4. As a result of the late heavy rains north and west of here the tributaries of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers have swollen to such a degree that an unprecedented rise of about fifteen feet has taken place in this harbor since yesterday morning, and the water is still rising. To-night the river is still rising and river men and Dr. Frankenfield. of tne weather bureau, predict that it will reach twentylive feet by morning. The water is rushing by with fearful speed and force, and has broken the anchorage of house beatr. swept away thousands of feet of lumber and ties and Is Hooding hundreds of acres of land. The outcome is being anxiously watcheel by many persons and great damage is anticipated. All TruiUN Late. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 4. The railroads of the Southwest are suffering badly from the snowstorm. All trains were late to-day, and In some places the traffic was suspended. Not much snow Is falling to-day, but the high winds are drifting it so much as to make it still harder for tne railroads, in some places the dritts are eight and ten feet hign. At Earned the snow is four feet riep in the level streets. Traffic on the Panhandle south of Woodward, O. T.. Is entirely blockaded. Telegraph and telephone "service has been greatly Interfered with and much elamage has also been done to stock. Trains into Kansas City from all directions are from one to six hours late. Rose Fifteen Feet In n Few Houm. BATES VI LLE, Ark.. Jan. 4. During the heavy storms of yesterday White river rose fifteen feet in a few hours. The fleet of government barges mored here broke away at midnight and drifted down the river. Captain Keefe and three men, named Smith. Williams and Galvin, who were on one of the barges, have not been heard from since. Iowa in the llllxzarPn Embrace. DES MOINES, Ia.. Jan. 4. The State of Iowa is In the tolls of a nerce blizzard. To-day the temperature has been falling and the loose snow is drifting and threatens to Interfere with railway travel. Owing to sleet many of the telegraph and tele phone wires are down. FORECAST FOR TO-DAY. Colder Weather and OeeaMlonal Snow, Followed by Fair Weather. 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THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. Characferintien of the Terrible Disease ow Prevailing: in China. New York World. Recent dispatches from London say that two cases of the bubonic plague have developed there the same disease which, since 1894, has been ravaging certain parts of China. This is only another reminder to us here in America that these eastern epidemics only too frequently girdle the earth before they have run their course, as did la grippe; which first was heard from in an alarming form in distant Russia, but which soon reached over our shores with the disastrous results which are still so fresh in mind. We are exposed on two sides to invasion by the bubonic plague, which is nothing more nor less than the "black death," which, in 1665, killed 100.000 Englishmen and produced the London horrors De Foe so graphically describes. It may reach us by the Golden Gate from China and it may come by any one of our Atlantic ports should the disease really become rooted in Europe. Already two cases of it have occurred on one of the Pacific mail steamers on the way from China to San Francisco. Two Chinese stokers were stricken and died of the disease shortly after the vessel sailed, and both were buried at sea. It is said on good authority that the bubonic plague has been more or less prevalent in certain parts of China ever since the seventh century, when it gained such terrific headway that It swept all Europe and nearly depopulated Marseilles, to say nothing of the De Foe horrors it wrought in London. The disease took pestilential form in Canton about two years ago. There is a wide, open ditch about a portion of the city Into which all the refuse and exuvla of the swarming population is emptied. It is the placid Chinese theory that the tide washes the festering mass away. The tide does nothing of the kind, and the filth remains there in the blistering sun to the depth of two or three feet, a breeding place for myriads of rats and other foul vermin. It is a curious fact that In all violent outbreaks of the bubonic plague rats seemed first to be seized with lt. and their death In great numbers always preceded by a few days corresponding ravages among beings. The rats swarming out of the extra-mural ditch about Canton and dying by thousands was the first warning the-Chinamen had that an epidemic of the disease was upon them. They burned red paper, tried to fool the geds by changing the date ot tho new year and died by the thousand, convinced that they had taken all the sanitary precautions within the power of man. From China the disease got to tormosa and the Malay peninsula. The Japanese, with their modern learning and freedom from the idiotic superstitions which afflict the besotted Chinamen, made t strong and Intelligent fight against the deadly invader, and kept him comparatively at bay. But the disease crept into India, and among certain groups of the natives there has spread with frightful rapidity. A press dispatch from Bombay last week -reported 2.ICt cases and 1,494 deaths up to date. Europeans .and such natives as were able to get away were Ieivln& the city by thousands. The newspapers were threatening martial law unless the natives obeyed the sanitary regulations. In India, as in China, the advent of the plague was heralded by an epidemic anions rats, which were found dead by the hundreds In and about the native dwellings. In some Instances rats, evidently suffering Cheapest, Dcccjsq H:o Best 6A3L umuEn EAGLE CRAN0 COrJCZNSCD MILK Rend for thit I:t.!o boo, "Inf t Jleeith;" griixt value to xuoUiers. Suiit tree. H. Y. Condensed L'llk Co. Tt IXiuUon Etrcct. T.rr -r.

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cen c;from the disease, swarmed, swollen and dying. Into rooms where were human Ikings. They reeled and staggered and wandered aimlessly about as though in th same delirium which marks a certain staK of the disease in man. A feature of the disease is the suddenness of attack and the awful rapidity with which one stage Vfollows another until death ensues. The first symptom Is usually a chill, as in an ague. Thn follows an acute nervousness and mental disturbance, with a fever that sends the temperature up to from one hundred to 107 The patient staggers like a drunken man. Headache, a burning thirst and intense pain in the upper part of the abdomen follow. A sticky perspiration exudes from the pores, and then followed the glandular swellings frota which the disease taken its -name. These last occur in the groin or neck. or. very frequently, under the- armpits. The swelling is oval and cgglike in shape, and the more of them there are the less dangerous the attack. Sudden, stablike paln.4 shoot through the body, and this gives rls to the .superstition among the Turks that the man with the plague is wounded by tho arrow of an invisible devil." Dark spots whence come the name of the "black death" appear on the skin of the victim just before dissolution. These spots were called "thft token" and their appearance was the signal for abandonment of all hope in the middle ages, and th victim was then and there scared to death by being told that all was over. An eminent Japanese bacteriologist. Prof. Klta-Soto, who studied In Europe under Koch, has discovered, the microbe of tho "black death." and his discovery was confirmed by Prof. Gersln. formerly attached to the Pasteur Laboratory in Pvis. Tho baccllus is short, thick, easy of culture and when inoculated on Guinea pigs kills them in twenty-four hours. Specimens of b.icclllinfected glandular swellings taken from vietims of the disease have been forwarded to Paris, nnd lt is hoped a vaccine may bo obtained that will prove efficacious. A CoiiKrennlnnnl GIiom!. Correspondence Philadelphia Telegraph. Old Judge Molman has again appeared upon the scene, and was walking through the almost deserted corridors of the Capitol the other day when I suddenly came upon him in the Statuary Hall. He had alout three days growth of bristly white halr on his face, and was making for the IIous barber shop. His knees were a little sprung with age. but his step was spry, and I had to quicken my pace to kep by his side. Ho reminded me of an old blooded horse which still has a bright eye and shows its mettle when it no longer has a leg under it. Tho spring in his knees suggested the simile, and his bright eye and nervous movements confirmed it. His trousers legs were a little shorter than ordinary, and one leg w;n a little shorter than the other, as if he had got back to the old Indiana practice of wearing one suspender, and his shoe sole struck the tile fioor with a quick, sha patter, showing that his ankle joints ari not quite as limber as of yore. But for these trifling signs of age he U the sam old Holman. Like an old parchment manuscript, he is a little more yellow and brittlehis voice crackles a little but the typo Is still clear. He showed that his old habits cling to him. Declining to enter the hall of tho House' by the door, he walked around t the hinged window of the barber shop and knocked on the glass. He had not been there for more than a year, but the negro barber evidently knew his knock, for the window was opened Instantly and the negro held out his hand and said, "Fo" de Lawd! ! thought it was yo knock. Judge!" The old man stood with one foot on tho siep-, iikh me gnost or past congresses come during the deserted holiday seahon to visit the familiar scenes. There was a dusty appearance about htm. as if he hnd Just come off a back shelf somewhere among th undisturbed archives. The old man sees a mission for him in tho next Congress. He will com to preach economy to Congress, and to tell the jeopl that extravagance is the cause of h their troubles. It will be a hard thing for him to struggle along In a Congress where hi. single objection will not count unless it happens to please the sjeaker to count it. Stilt harder will it, be for him if he shouM have to recognize the leadership of Ballev, whom he knew as the kid from Texas. lU and Bland and Jerry Simpson will have to go off and flock by themselves. A German Dlweovery. LONDON. Jan. 5. 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